In a conversation with SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, climate activists threatened civil disobedience for January.
This applies if the new federal government does not immediately switch to more climate protection, for example in agriculture, said the two activists Henning Jeschke and Lea Bonasera in the public debate with Scholz on Friday.
The two had enforced this with a hunger strike.
"We will bring the Federal Republic to a standstill," said Jeschke.
Scholz clashed violently with the two activists. The two young people accused him of ignoring the disastrous consequences of rising global temperatures and of doing too little. "Nobody has a plan to lead us out of the disaster," said Jeschke. Scholz countered: “I have a plan.” He referred to the planned restructuring of the energy supply and industry in order to become climate-neutral by 2045. That would be very difficult. “We have to make a real effort,” said Scholz. For his part, the SPD politician accused the activists of not making any concrete proposals against the climate crisis, but only of describing the dangers.
"You are making yourself far too comfortable," said Scholz.
He rejected the accusation that politicians did not see the seriousness of the situation.
"How did you come up with this megalomaniac self-assessment?" Asked Scholz.
Jeschke and other activists went on hunger strike for weeks in September.
Most recently, he and his colleague Bonasera also refused to drink until Scholz agreed to a public discussion about the climate crisis.
The climate activists speak of the "uprising of the last generation".
They are calling for immediate action to curb global warming and avert famine.